Macrotermes

Macrotermes
Structure of a Macrotermes natalensis mound
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Dictyoptera
Order: Blattodea (prev. Isoptera)
Family: Termitidae
Subfamily: Macrotermitinae
Genus: Macrotermes
Holmgren[1]
Species

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Macrotermes is a genus of termites belonging to the family Termitidae and widely distributed throughout Africa and South-East Asia. Like other genera in the Macrotermitinae, they consume dead plant material by cultivating a Basidiomycete fungus of the genus Termitomyces on galleries inside - often very large - termite mounds. Frequently at the beginning of the rainy season, enormous swarms of winged flying adults disperse to establish new colonies.

The following species have been recorded:[2][3]

  • Macrotermes acrocephalus
  • Macrotermes ahmadi
  • Macrotermes aleemi
  • Macrotermes annandalei
  • Macrotermes barneyi
  • Macrotermes beaufortensis
  • Macrotermes bellicosus
  • Macrotermes carbonarius
  • Macrotermes chaiglomi
  • Macrotermes choui
  • Macrotermes constrictus
  • Macrotermes convulsionarius
  • Macrotermes declivatus
  • Macrotermes denticulatus
  • Macrotermes falciger
  • Macrotermes gilvus
  • Macrotermes gratus
  • Macrotermes guangxiensis
  • Macrotermes hainanensis
  • Macrotermes herus
  • Macrotermes hopini
  • Macrotermes ituriensis
  • Macrotermes ivorensis
  • Macrotermes jeanneli [4]
  • Macrotermes jinghongensis
  • Macrotermes khajuriae
  • Macrotermes latignathus
  • Macrotermes latinotus
  • Macrotermes lilljeborgi
  • Macrotermes longiceps
  • Macrotermes longimentis
  • Macrotermes luokengensis
  • Macrotermes maesodensis
  • Macrotermes malaccensis
  • Macrotermes medogensis
  • Macrotermes meidoensis
  • Macrotermes menglongensis
  • Macrotermes michaelseni
  • Macrotermes mozambicanus
  • Macrotermes muelleri
  • Macrotermes natalensis
  • Macrotermes niger
  • Macrotermes nobilis
  • Macrotermes orthognathus
  • Macrotermes peritrimorphus
  • Macrotermes probeaufortensis
  • Macrotermes renouxi
  • Macrotermes scheuthlei
  • Macrotermes serrulatus
  • Macrotermes singaporensis
  • Macrotermes subhyalinus
  • Macrotermes trapezoides
  • Macrotermes trimorphus
  • Macrotermes ukuzii
  • Macrotermes vitrialatus
  • Macrotermes yunnanensis
  • Macrotermes zhejiangensis

References

  1. ↑ Holmgren N (1913). Termitenstudien 4. Versuch einer systematischen Monographie der Termiten der orientalischen Region. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 50(2):1-276
  2. ↑ Termite catalogue
  3. ↑ Organism names
  4. ↑ Leuthold RH, Triet H, Schildger B (2004). Husbandry and breeding of African Giant Termites (Macrotermes jeanneli) at Berne Animal Park. Zool. Garten N. F. 74: 1, S. 26-37. Online: http://www.tierpark-bern.ch/pdf/Publikation_termiten.pdf
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